Hi Dorrie:

Dr. Melody says to go and read her recent thread on muscle spasms (and don't laugh when you do this).

here's the link Read all the responses, then go and use the soap.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread54740.html

Ok, If you mean the graphs they are all blood sugars taken 2 hrs after I have eaten. The Fasting glucose intolerance tests were something else entirely.

Hi Doc Melody!! I have had a bar of ivory in my sheets for weeks...it helps a bit if I lay the cramping spot on it but it is not working as well now...the pain is overpowering it! Thanks for the suggestion though!! xoxo
I usually am a shower girl but today I sank into a tub of hot water with ebsoms salt...loosed me up for a while...an hour or so and then the discomfort returned

Hi Dorrie:

The soap works for me (when I'm in the bed). But I should have been WEARING a bar of Ivory Soap last night as I was sitting in my chair watching The Biggest Loser with Alan. Now this may have something to do with my using my mini stair stepper for a while while I was watching The Biggest Loser.

But as I was sitting down the lower legs started to buzz and my toes were cramping and my feet were cramping. I looked over at Alan (who has had neuropathy for 20 years or so) and I said 'Do your feet hurt right now? and he said "melody my feet ALWAYS hurt". I felt so bad for him. He does have good (or better pain times as I call them), then others.

He then said "The barometer must be changing because I know what you mean".

I should have soaked my feet in epson salts. That works wonders.

But when I took my melatonin and went to bed (right over the soap), well no more spasms. To me, if this soap helps me sleep, then more power to it.

I am definitely going to try something new the next time I'm sitting and my feet start cramping. I'm going to take two bars and put them inside my socks.

I shall let you know if this stops the spasming.

Wouldn't THAT BE SOMETHING??

Melody

I did look online at the glycemic food index and got some interesting info (who knew the watermelon would be high... good thing I don't like it!)

This might be a silly question, but how do you figure out the glycemic food index for say a packaged food? Like organic canned soup or something? Is there some kind of formula? And what about low-carb pasta, isn't that supposed to be better for people with diabetes/blood sugar issues?

I can tell you about the low-carb pasta thing.

I tried them ALL. The thing is YOU WON'T KNOW HOW IT AFFECTS YOU UNLESS YOU TRY IT. Buy some low-carb pasta. Use as directed. Eat a portion (I know it's stupid but people EAT THE WHOLE PLATE FULL), and that's not a portion. I believe a portion is one half cup of cooked pasta. At least that's what I do.

I cook the pasta, drain it, add some stir fried low-sodium teriyaki chicken and throw in some cooked zucchini, broccoli and asparagus.


sounds like a lot of food right? It's not.

It's a bowl full. but it's balanced. With the veggies filling out most of the bowl. The chicken is a piece of chicken the size of you fist. (That's the protein), the veggies are the fiber, and the pasta, well if you get the one with fiber, then it's the fiber, but if you get the plain old low-carb, then you just added only 5 grams of carbs to that bowl.

Toss in a splash of extra virgin olive oil, a dash of garlic, some salt and pepper to taste (not a lot of salt if you are on a low-salt diet), and you'll have the most delicious bowl of pasta, chicken and vegetables, you ever ate in your life.

I did this last night. And it wasn't the low carb pasta either.

I had made regular spaghetti for my husband, I had a bit left over, so I threw it in my chicken and veggies.

Made no impact on my sugar whatsoever. But then again, I'm a nut about everything else I eat.

So give it a try and see what happens.

melody

Sounds pretty good. I'll admit it, I am one of those people who overeat pasta. I've been eating the low carb for a while and it seems like it is better than the regular pasta, but then I heard that Whole Grain pasta is good too, so now I am confused. Oh well.

I guess I am trying to get some other peoples opinions on it.

I still eat regular pasta but I have learned portion control. Used to eat a whole bowl now for each meal I have learned what is the right portions of each. Its easy to overeat.

TELL ME ABOUT IT. That's how I got to be over 300 lbs. I LOVED PASTA.

I was raised on Spaghetti, garlic and broccoli. Never tasted such a delicious thing in all my life. My mother would make this DISH, I never duplicated it, but I never ate just one bowl. My god I could polish off 3 bowls it was so good.

But I just do the scaled down version.

And I tried the Smart Harvest (I think that's the name) by Ronzoni. Some kind of smart whole grain pasta.
I threw it in the trash. I hated it. But that's just me. My friend loves it.

For me, the best tasting low-carb pasta is dreamfields. It tastes exactly like spaghetti.

Oh, don't know if you've ever tried Quinoa, but it comes in pasta too. Go online and google Quinoa Pasta.

VERY EXPENSIVE, but it's supposed to be the best thing for your body (or some such nonsense). I couldn't afford it.

lol

Mel

I gotta agree Dreamfields is the best low carb I've tasted.

And I am with you that Quinoa Pasta is way out of my price range.

I swear it's like I am addicted to pasta. I just gotta get better will power. Know where I can buy some?

But as for figuring out the GI for other foods is there any way to do it, or do we just have to guess how out bodies will react?